Christmas Lights (Griswold Style)

Matt's favorite time of the year.....hanging Christmas lights. This year they are perfect! Great job Matt! In years passed though....

Year one: we had one "rope light" and lined our mulch with it. It looked like a snake. Snow fell that year and covered it for about one month. It shone through in a few spots and looked hilarious.

Year two: Matt decided to attempt to climb the roof, risk his life, and line the whole house. It looked great after MUCH hard work, re-hanging, and near death moments. We lit them for two nights, an ice storm came, blew them down on the side of the house and the weather conditions were too dangerous for the next four weeks to climb up and fix them. The lights were never lit again that year.

Year three: Last year. The lights looked very similar to our display this year. We had to reapply duct tape to the windows and garage about a dozen times but you would've thought they were perfect. ....Until late January when we decided to take them down and realized duct tape is not intended for use on your house. It was stuck to the metal, the wood... Many hours of Goo-Be-Gone, scrubbing and tears later, we managed to remove most of it. If you look closely, you can still find some remnants.

Year four: This year we searched for the perfect hanging "tool" for the lights around the windows and garage. We settled on exterior tape. The verdict's still out on the repercussions of this adhesive. So far so good. No reapplications yet.